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SF lady pinned throughout alleged jaywalking arrest sues metropolis, claims extreme use of power – Native Information Issues

By Miles Cooper
Crime
March 5, 2025
SF lady pinned throughout alleged jaywalking arrest sues metropolis, claims extreme use of power – Native Information Issues
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Attorneys of a lady who was pinned in opposition to a wall and arrested for alleged jaywalking final 12 months filed a civil rights lawsuit in opposition to the town and county of San Francisco on Monday. 

The swimsuit follows the July 2024 arrest of Christiana Porter, a younger mom and home abuse survivor, who could be seen in enterprise surveillance footage strolling in a crosswalk earlier than she was bodily detained in what her attorneys say was an extreme use of power. 

Porter, a Black lady, had simply left Workplace Depot on Geary Boulevard, the place she had printed out supplies associated to a home violence case by which she was the sufferer. 

In accordance with the criticism, Porter was carrying headphones however regarded each methods earlier than crossing Second Avenue. About midway by the crosswalk, surveillance footage exhibits a police car approaching earlier than Porter throws up her arms. Civil rights legal professional Treva R. Stewart of Pointer & Buelna — representing Porter — stated the officer honked at her consumer.  

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After she crosses the crosswalk, the surveillance video then exhibits Porter strolling onward with headphones on, and the patrol car pulls into the wheelchair onramp on the sidewalk. Stewart stated at that time, Porter was unaware of the police automobile behind her as she continued strolling whereas listening to her headphones. Then the police car is seen driving into oncoming site visitors on the one-way Geary Boulevard, earlier than Officer Josh McFall will get out of the patrol automobile and steps into her path. 

Porter seems to leap after which steps backward earlier than the 2 seem to talk, as seen on the soundless surveillance footage. When she tries to stroll round McFall, he pins her to the wall of a constructing.

That’s when bystanders took out their telephones to report footage of Porter screaming, as McFall repeatedly says, “Stop resisting,” and Porter yells, “Get off of me. I’m not resisting. Give me my phone.” 

Stewart stated her consumer had been terrified to get on the bottom, fearful that he would shoot her and that she was upset by the bodily interplay as she is a survivor of home violence. 

SF lady pinned throughout alleged jaywalking arrest sues metropolis, claims extreme use of power – Native Information Issues
Video of Christina Porter, 34, being arrested on July, 29 2024 throughout a cease allegedly initiated for jaywalking in San Francisco, Calif. Porter allegedly suffered a concussion, a separated proper shoulder and ongoing bodily ache, in addition to accidents to her psyche after the arrest. (Newsroom PR through Bay Metropolis Information)

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Witnesses within the background of the cellular phone movies could be heard saying they noticed Porter in the course of the crosswalk when the sunshine modified. Among the bystanders then start shouting on the arresting officers. 

“Officer McFall’s actions were not just unnecessary and violent — they were illegal,” stated Stewart.

In accordance with the criticism, the San Francisco Police Division in 2023 modified its coverage that beforehand allowed the police to cease folks for “low-level driving infractions” once they believed different crimes could possibly be concerned — recognizing the observe had disproportionally impacted folks of colour.

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“Jaywalking was decriminalized in California to prevent exactly these kinds of pretextual stops, which disproportionately target Black and brown people,” stated Stewart, including that SFPD now bars officers from utilizing jaywalking as a justification for stopping pedestrians. “Yet, Officer McFall ignored both state law and department policy when he detained and brutalized Ms. Porter.”

In dialog with the bystanders, McFall is recorded saying that Porter refused to conform regardless of the possibilities she was given, and when she started to stroll away from him, he had no alternative however to make the arrest. He defined that he used the strategy of driving the mistaken approach down Geary and getting in entrance of Porter in case she couldn’t hear or see him. 

“Jaywalking was decriminalized in California to prevent exactly these kinds of pretextual stops, which disproportionately target Black and brown people. … Yet, Officer McFall ignored both state law and department policy when he detained and brutalized Ms. Porter.”

Treva R. Stewart, civil rights legal professional

“It was simply a pedestrian stop,” McFall stated. “She refused all commands to stop, refused commands to give me her ID, refused commands to keep her hands out of her pockets and her purse, where she had — I don’t know what. She could have had weapons concealed there.” 

The criticism states that Porter suffered a concussion, separated shoulder, again ache, neck ache and sciatic nerve injury in her hips following the arrest. She is looking for damages that embody misplaced wages and medical bills, together with punitive damages in opposition to the officer, although no particular greenback quantity was specified within the criticism.

When requested for touch upon the case, Alex Berrett-Shorter, deputy press secretary for the San Francisco Metropolis Lawyer’s workplace, stated, “Once we are served with the lawsuit, we will review the complaint and respond in court.”

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